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Why is NatureSmart Important?


In some ways, this very study of multiple intelligence is using the naturalist intelligence to understand your own natural knowing. We are born with The 8 Kinds of Smart already inside us. They are a gift of nature!

As you get to know your various "ways of knowing" you can recognition the various patterns of your own intellectual make up, AND you can work to empower those areas of your multiple intelligences which many not be as developed as others. This is the work of the naturalist applied to your cognition.

One of the most interesting and compelling aspects of the research behind NatureSmart is that there are certain neural centers within the brain that are devoted exclusively to the recognition, appreciation, and understanding of patterns, designs, and groupings in the natural world (as opposed to the humanly created world).

The capacities of the naturalist intelligence can be transferred to the humanly created world, but those same capacities (the recognition, appreciation, and understanding of patterns, designs, and groupings in the humanly created world) do not transfer to those same capacities and abilities in the natural world.


The BENEFITS of awakening and developing your NatureSmart are many and include at least the following:

• You’ll gain an understanding of how nature impact your participants and how it shapes their responses to your presentation.

• You’ll develop a respect for other creatures which inhabit our world.

• You’ll acquire a greater sensitivity to larger patterns in the environment – weather patterns, changing seasons, phases of the moon – and how they may affect your participants

• You’ll learn how to create a more natural environment in your training space using live plants or cut flowers.

• You’ll learn to care for and conserve the natural environment and encourage participant’s to do the same.


Career Smarts
Professionals who are strong in NatureSmart
include poets, public speakers, journalists, writers (authors, advertising, script and speech writers), speech pathologists, lawyers, secretaries, editors, proofreaders, comedians,
debaters, archivists, translators, and TV and radio newscasters, commentators, and announcers.

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